Moderna could begin development of a vaccine against Omicron in early 2022

Modern American pharmacist, creator of one of the most widely used vaccines against COVID-19, This Sunday placed the hypothetical development of a new injection adapted to the Ómicron variant for early 2022.

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“If we have to create a completely new vaccine, ″Moderna’s chief medical officer, Paul Burton, assured in an interview on the BBC.

Burton also pointed out in Andrew Marr’s program on British television that the pharmaceutical company has hundreds of people working in this new lineages since Thursday and explained that in the coming weeks they expect to have been able to

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Since the new variant was identified in the middle of last week, the main manufacturers of vaccines against COVID-19 in the West, including the American Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson, began to test the effectiveness of their products against this variant. .

Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech issued a statement on Friday in which they explained that their laboratories are already analyzing this variant to determine if their vaccine (one of the most used in the US and in European countries)

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For its part, Moderna warned that the mutations observed in the variant and explained that it will test several booster doses of its vaccine to see what the reaction is.

Johnson & Johnson, which markets its vaccine in Europe under the name of its Janssen subsidiary, noted that it is already testing the effectiveness of its product. “Against the new fast-spreading variant that was identified in southern Africa.”

Also the American Novavax and the British AstraZeneca said they were analyzing the effect of their vaccines against this new variant.

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